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The Week That Was - July 31st - Lessons from Cecil

31st Jul 2015
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Social and Traditional media has been awash with the story of Cecil The Lion this week. I'm sure you know the story, so I won't retell it here.

What about the lessons that can be derived from it though, which are many.

A man, a professional, spent his entire career building up a practice. He himself, had a high level of technical competence. His practice and career afforded him a lifestyle of exotic getaways.

Now, through exceptionally poor judgement and negative coverage of that judgement, he is public enemy number one until the media find someone else to target.

My personal stance is that his actions were abhorrent.

I am also interested to note though how often I've seen Accounting firms, built on the back of generations of hard work, undone very quickly through the negative coverage of poor judgement.  I'm sure most of us can name the firms I have in mind here.

So, as we mourn the loss of Cecil and the continued misconception that Man has a right to kill whatever he feels like; perhaps we'd also do well to identify the poor judgement and predators that could kill a career of our hard work, in an instant.

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By ShirleyM
31st Jul 2015 19:05

I guess the dentist ...

... managed to keep his love of killing big game by bow & arrow a secret, until this happened. Although, the news says he has been prosecuted before for killing animals in a protected area, or out of season. I can't remember the exact details.

I like to think that if his clients had been aware of his 'hobby' that many would have gone elsewhere.

It's amazing what people think they can do and not be discovered ... child abuse, drug abuse, blackmail, gun running, murder .... and they are so 'sorry' once discovered, but more likely to be sorry they were caught and the game was up.

There is no mistaken identity here though. He provided the photographic evidence himself.

 

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